[World of Warcraft] Mass Pandamonium

[Wesley Foxx]

I dusted off my old Draenai warrior and dual specced him into tanking. It was surprisingly fun and easy!

Edit: okay what.



It is like RIGHT THERE, WHY DO YOU NOT HAVE A less out-of-the-way FLIGHT PATH. :|

[Green Torso]

[Bwg]

The downside to having 8,000 new flight points is that it's easy to break the chain when trying to use a new one.

Not sure what the fuck is going on with the Shattrath one though.

[Mirdini]

I think that was one of those wonderful bugs way back in BC.

[PepperYena]

All I did was sorta just run through the world picking up flight paths on my priest.

I hated how you had to like, fly around the word just to get from un goro to feralas. So I just picked up a ton of flight paths and made it *Moderately* Better.

Nijel's Point and Astranaar are interconnected flight points, so they connect to the other major ones.

[Phantos]

Too lazy to go through the thread, but is anyone on Ravenholdt-H or Moon Guard-A? If so, I've got gold for you!

[Mirdini]

Too lazy to go through the thread, but is anyone on Ravenholdt-H or Moon Guard-A? If so, I've got gold for you!

Moon Guard eh?

[Wesley Foxx]

Servers down for maintenence dum de dum guess I'll check out the website

oh hey patch 4.0.6 info lets see what's different.

Druids
Healing Touch is now trained at level 78, up from level 3.
Nourish is now trained at level 8, down from level 78.
Rejuvenation is now trained at level 3, down from level 8. In addition, its mana cost has been reduced from 26% to 16%.

(The other spells were added further down so at first I was like WHAT :|)
At this rate, every class will end up learning all their formerly end-tier spells at the beginning and getting the stuff that used to come with the characters once they hit 80. :V

Priests
The mana cost of Power Word: Shield has been increased by approximately 31%, but its effect has been increased by 208%.
Improved Power Word: Shield now also increases the amount absorbed by an additional 15/30% when cast on oneself.
The mana cost of Renew has been reduced by 24%.

As a disc priest, especially as one who loves healing, this makes me very happy. |3

Rogues

Main Gauche (Mastery) now provides a chance to deal an attack for 75% of main-hand damage. This attack can trigger Combat Potency.

And they just said they were trying to emphasize fast offhand weapons for combat spec. I guess this sort of counts?

Warlocks
Drain Mana has been removed from the game.

:<

[Eman]

Oh right, there's a thread here. I've been grinding Sunslammer pretty much constantly, sorry I didn't respond earlier to acknowledge bwg's funding. Thanks bwg!
Also, I have a new respect/fear for those who had a lvl 85 goblin the week after Cata came out (didn't hear of any, but I know they're out there)

[PepperYena]

YES! YES YES YES THE PRIEST UPDATE

There are SO many talents and skills that increase your renew, and I just didn't use it that often! I just put shield on the tank and DPS'd the enemy with my wand til the shield ran out.

But with CHAKRA, Renew becomes even more useful. (I'm a holy priest)

I'm confident I can heal through anything, cause I have lots of spirit at the moment. My mana comes back faster than Sonic- Okay wait not that fast.

Honestly Renew and PW: Shield are the best instant casts I have at the moment.

[Bwg]

Hunters

Aspect of the Wild, Aspect of the Hawk, and Aspect of the Fox can now be cast while mounted.

YOU MEAN WE CAN FINALLY DO SOMETHING SENSIBLE?


Black Arrow damage has been reduced by 25%.

Explosive Shot damage has been reduced by 25%.

Into the Wilderness (passive) has been reduced to a 10% Agility increase, down from 15%.

...fuck.

[Wesley Foxx]

Hee. Beast mastery got buffed a bit, survival got de-fittest'd a bit. :P

Cata is just silly. I'm not even qualified for heroics yet, but I can still solo Heroic Magister's Terrace. As a rogue.

[Green Torso]

Survival was the spec out of all classes that did the most DPS in raids, Beast Mastery and Marksmanship the lowest two. It's only fair that Surv gets nerfed and BM and Marks buffed. :0

And, well, anyone can pretty much solo most if not all pre-Cataclysm 5man stuff mostly thanks to the insane health inflation. To be fair, it's not surprising you can solo content from two expansions ago before being uneligible for current content...

[Reako]

Cata is just silly. I'm not even qualified for heroics yet, but I can still solo Heroic Magister's Terrace. As a rogue.

I'll call that and raise you this. I was able to solo Heroic Pit of Saron as an Arms warrior. That's just how silly the gear differance between 80 and 85 epics are. VERY silly.

[Bwg]

Survival was the spec out of all classes that did the most DPS in raids, Beast Mastery and Marksmanship the lowest two. It's only fair that Surv gets nerfed and BM and Marks buffed. :0

Yeah, but 25% off of most abilities is a pretty big dip. Suppose I should look into returning to Marksman after the two years I've been apart from my original build.

[PepperYena]

Land of time and money, friend?
Bwg, I love you now.

Anyway, finally beat Gordok Commons. What I said earlier about it being harder than the other dungeons of its level- was right.
They have too much HP, hit like trucks, and the boss battle is horrendously hard. The other dungeons I have no problem with.

[Wesley Foxx]

Its just, I'm a ROGUE. One of the squishier classes. I'm not even heroic geared. It was the hardest non-raid instance just 15 levels below me.

[Reako]

One of the primary reasons my warrior can solo ridiculous things he should not be able to, is Victory Rush. So long as he can bring down a foe within 9 levels of himself, he can hit the next one in line with this move, and heal 50% of his max HP on the spot. And his max HP is 115k or so. To top it off, there's Enraged Regeneration, which heals 30% (40% when glyphed) of my max HP when I decide to use it. I've solo'd Magtheridon for some easy money (450-600g dropped per kill!) this way, just by popping one of the 5 level-skull warlocks that come with him and getting all my health back.

I am honestly surprised this hasn't been nerfed yet. It reminds me of the early overpowered days of when Death Knights were new. And there's still the death knight who managed to solo Kael'thas in Tempest Keep. Even if it's a level 70 raid, that's quite a feat, and not something I can do myself.

EDIT: Consider my mind blown, this guy has already solo'd MARROWGAR as well, and that's... it's just... I dunno. I just know it's legitmate and no cheating was involved.

[PepperYena]

Damn, I just watched that. My mind was blown, as well.
Once I get to level 85 and get good gear and stuff, Is it possible for me to just blast magtheridon to death? I'm a mage. Maybe I'd have to work with a healer or a tank for me to kill him, but I mean, mages have some of the highest damage output in the game, and I'm pretty sure you wouldn't be able to solo some bosses.

[Reako]

You'd probably be able to nuke some level 60 and early level 70 raid bosses, but the lack of much armor (due to cloth) or a number of percentage based self heals that aren't canceled when something hits you, means soloing Magtheridon as a mage is unlikely. There's still 2.5 million health to burn through, and he still hits cloth for 15k or so, not to mention his five warlock adds that can heal themselves to full health if you don't burst them fast enough (which Warriors and Death Knights can do due to alot of instant attacks that hits all enemies in a general radius; nothing to screw up their heals like having them all focus on one person while the other four are still critical)

It's been done before on a rogue too, however, so who knows. I think rogues simply have enough burst to knock out his adds quick enough to make it just Mag vs themselves, and rogues can get quite a bit of dodge going on to deal with his physical hits. I'm not sure how recuperation works, you'd have to ask Wesley about that one.

[Green Torso]

That DK was also able to keep himself alive solo against Festergut (or was it Rotface? I always get those two mixed up) back when he was current content. Then he died due to enrage. He also soloed Sartharion at some point, if my memory serves me right.

[Wesley Foxx]

Basically, recuperate restores 2% of your health every tick, something like 6 seconds per combo point. If you put the talents into it, its 4% and you also take 6% less damage. At 85 you have about 100k health, so basically you're keeping a 4k ticking HoT on yourself with combo points. I cycle it in between slice n' dice and revealing-strike-boosted 5 point ruptures. Against casters especially, where you're resisting/avoiding half of their spells due to the level gap, you easily out-heal their damage output while bleeding and beating them to death. Raid bosses are trickier due to the whole 'boss level' thing, but still doable. You should mitigate enough with your cooldowns to survive, at least as long as nothing breaks out the "deals % of total life" damage stuff.

I duo'd Temple of AQ with another rogue, vanishing/Tricks of the Trading the threat back and forth to give the other time to recuperate/bandage. We did it with no trouble. Really, at this point, using that kind of strategy, you should be able to take down damn near ANYTHING you can survive a couple hits against with a number of rogues.

However, I am really not the best person for advice on this subject; I am a stubborn oldbie who refuses to use a mutilate build, because I have been combat forever.

[SquirrelPants]

I get a 4-day weekend. I might even use some of it to play WoW! I haven't been playing much lately. ._.

[Wesley Foxx]

I have been playing tons but never on the MSPA server. I am terrible.

[SquirrelPants]

Some super moderator you are.

(just kidding please don't kill me)